Game over - curtains for suave heroic pilot (5)

Independent Cryptic #11927 | 9 Across | 2024-12-31
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

Game over – curtains for suave heroic pilot GO (=game) + O (=over, on cricket scorecard) + S <uav> E (“curtains” means first and last letters only); could this refer to the nickname of the character Nick Bradshaw in the film Top Gun ?

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